Mara and Vera go head to head in a hearing to establish the truth of Mara's claims. But Mara does not realize that her key witness is also Vera's. Fabian thinks that they have solved the potions task, but Nina is suspicious that Victor may have beaten them to it. Eddie's prank on Mr. Sweet backfires on Mara, and she is expelled.

A shocked Mara is expelled, while Jerome fires "Coach" Alfie. Vera has secretly bribed her witness - and Trudy is still suspicious. Mara doesn't get expelled but can't work for the website anymore and Mrs. Andrews takes the punishment and leaves the school. Patricia learns a huge secret about Eddie and Nina gets some bad news about Gran.

Jerome's tournament goes badly. As Victor is getting ahead, Senkhara is getting angrier. She yells at Nina for visiting Gran instead of working through the tunnels. Nina gets upset and says that Senkhara doesn't exist and walks through her. Senkhara then tells Nina her punishment "will be to punish." The next day, Nina's innocent words to her friends are twisted by Senkhara into hexes. Nina gets a vision about herself turning into Senkhara and the Sibuna gang is running away from her.